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Debt Ceiling Fiasco

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Hours before the U.S. faced a first-ever default, President Obama signed into law a compromise deal that averts a crisis by raising the debt limit, but signaled that he will not abandon his stalled efforts to raise taxes on the wealthy.

Read 'Inside the debt deal: Who won, who lost' from our blog Exclusives on Yahoo! News. By Major Garrett National Journal It started clean and ended messy. When the debt-ceiling crisis began to capture the public's and Wall Street's bemused imagination in June, President Obama's Gallup approval rating was 50 percent, the highest It's now at … Continue reading →

The bill passed with all House Democrats opposed, as well as 22 Republicans, but it isn't likely to advance in the Senate, where Democrats are working on rival legislation ahead of the Treasury's Tuesday deadline to increase the debt limit

Charles Krauthammer writes on NRO: We’re in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract between citizen and state. The distinctive visions of the two parties — social-democratic versus limited-government — have underlain every debate . . .

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid signaled he's ready to push ahead with his own version, and President Barack Obama declared "we're almost out of time" in a wrenching political standoff that has heightened fears of a market-rattling government default. On Capitol Hill, Boehner revised his measure and made inroads with reluctant rank-and-file conservatives who have argued that the deficit cuts it contained were insufficient in exchange for a debt limit hike. Rep. David Dreier of California said the revised measure would still raise the nation's debt limit by $900 billion — essential to allow the government to keep paying its bills — and cut spending by $917 billion. [...] a later increase in borrowing authority wouldn't take effect unless Congress sent a constitutional balanced budget amendment to the states for ratification. A divided government is struggling to break the extreme Washington gridlock and head off a first-ever default that would leave the Treasury without the mon

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